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title: Local gentry and charitable organisations provided relief but could… — Ireland · tree and pragmatics
description: Local gentry and charitable organisations provided relief but could do little to prevent the ensuing mortality. Who acts: Local gentry. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ireland» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ireland, sentence 141

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From Wikipedia, [«Ireland»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Local gentry and charitable organisations provided relief but could do little to prevent the ensuing mortality.

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**Who acts:** Local gentry · **What happens:** provide, do, prevent, ensue · **To what, where:** relief, little, ensuing mortality

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ireland». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Local gentry), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Ireland:141
# text = Local gentry and charitable organisations provided relief but could do little to prevent the ensuing mortality.
1	Local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	gentry	gentry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	charitable	charitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	organisations	organisation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	ensuing	ensue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	mortality	mortality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | past | Local gentry and charitable organisations | relief |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition relief=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | could | Local gentry and charitable organisations *not said here* | little |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Eventuality |
| 3 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | Local gentry and charitable organisations *not said here* | the ensuing mortality |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer mortality=Theme |
| 4 | **ensue** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Ireland», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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